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This Top Secret study by the Interdepartmental Coordinating Group on Germany and Berlin, dated July 12, 1961, and released by the Central Intelligence Agency, answers NSC Directive No. 58 of June 30, 1961. It sets out courses of action for the Berlin crisis but does not judge their merits. It covers imminent presidential decisions, a three-phase timetable running to January 1, military preparations and mobilization, covert action, economic sanctions, public information, negotiating positions and checkpoint procedures for East German personnel.
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etc. Our propaganda will have to concentrate more directly on the question of access so that military action on our part, if it should prove necessary, would to the extent possible appear logical and justified. Psychological warfare should be stepped up to the point that this factor becomes of real concern to the Soviets in determining their next moves. Preparations for large-scale economic counter-measures should be made so evident that their implementation upon any interference with our access can be assumed by the Soviet Bloc to be virtually automatic.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 163 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.